I think often about a substance “almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea”
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I think often about a substance “almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea”
What do we want? "Stuff"!
When do we want it? <whenevs>
Most people already know what they want. When they get it depends on the "How"?
Be a "How?" person.
It's the only part of politics that ever changes anything. The rest is flag waving, and your opponents want you stuck waving flags.
Just awful
Logistics is woke. Supply is woke. End-state planning is woke. Force protection? Believe it or not, woke
And unlike private (or god forbid - university) sectors, public sector takes training seriously. That is very well done.
Agree. Which is why Public sector tends to lose people at the middle level Also, the rigmarole involved in promoting someone, even if overqualified and there is a vacancy, is unbelievable. I have family on 1/2 of what they would earn in private sector, but they stay because conditions are good.
If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle.
It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get.
www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...
I lost it at about 1300, but had some of the words from the last bit from cognates and some poking I'd done at Icelandic and Old Norse for some fiction I did a while back.
The video that inspired the post is *amazing* too - link is from footnote 1.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=842O...
Residents can’t just move. These houses are uniquely built for people’s needs: ceiling tracks for hoists, wider door frames, areas allocated for floor mats, ramps, items like door locks installed with formal permission from behaviour support plans: not transferable, bathrooms with accessible baths
Tui are lovely
Our next-door neighbour has a kōwhai tree, which is an important food source, and we have a cherry, which is an important source of bickering, so we get to hear and see a lot of tui
They are fantastic forest fliers, too - very agile among trees - divebombing and strafing each other
The second #kakapo chick of the #kakapo2026 breeding season hatched this morning: Hine Taumai-A1-2026 on Ako's nest on Te Kākahu. We transferred the egg from Anchor two nights ago. This is Ako's first-ever chick, which is just a few hours old in this video. #conservation #birds #parrots
Europe and Canada have agency because they (a) have a degree of power themselves and (b) there is more than one powerful state in the world. When the traditional great power ally becomes a threat, they can balance against it by engaging more closely with the other great power.
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You know #Ozsky, we can speak completely in dialect and none of these numpties will have the slightest clue what we’re on about. 🦘🇦🇺
Australias former Prime Minister Paul Keating, left High School at age 15. Yet he was one of the most intelligent and articulate wordsmiths ever seen. Quick witted he could cut you down quickly. Footage of him in Question Time shows this on You Tube. Education or past jobs does not matter
The flightless #kakapo usually nest underground. Yesterday we found the coolest nest I’ve ever seen: Whetu was 3m above ground in a hollow rata tree. #kakapo2026 #conservation #birds
We are seeking a 3+ year postdoc in ocean modelling, to work on an exciting project investigating underwater tsunamis in Antarctica.
More about the project here: www.polomints.ac.uk
Read more about the post here: lnkd.in/eBjndZPv
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Australians were never meant to worship politicians—we put them in a paddock for a reason. Snarky Gherkin on why political fandom is deeply un-Australian.
Read: open.substack.com/pub/snarkygh... #auspol $AUSPOL
I spent most of elementary/middle/high school being told I was bad at math when it turns out I was actually bad at arithmetic. I got to calculus almost purely out of spite and found it was awesome and fun and ruled and you know what? Turns out computers are real good at arithmetic.
Love it. Now my kids want to know which rollercoaster game it was?
The NSW riot squad is barely 20 years old and is something new and different. I do not buy the assertion the police have always behaved the way they did on video yesterday. I am old enough to remember the 1980s and 1990s and the last Royal Commission.
With the last one, we asked Jon if he could create a start to finish video of how he created the cartoon
Here it is #auspol #politas #cartooning
This week in Zen and the Science of Candy Corn, we’re tiptoeing through the tulips of this wonderful vintage recipe pamphlet fromeveryone’s favorite spokescow, Elsie. Almost all of Eagle Brand’s recipes are keepers….almost. There Is one serious doozy in here! open.substack.com/pub/momofnor...
It mostly works - forces parties to appeal to the centre. Can make politics boring and slow. But is very stable. Nowhere near perfect - getting money and lobbying out of politics is hard. But the AEC is a treasure.
Democracy sausage! Fundraising for local schools at polling stations. Polling places r at schools/ community halls. Locals set up bbq to sell snags. Also usually a cake stand, and jam sales, and if lucky, second hand book sales.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democra...
Everybody eats when they come to my house.
(Fats Waller song, couldn't find it on Youtube and I don't do the Amazon/Spotify/Apple crap)
Smooch has worn herself out.
So apparently the Map Equation (infoMap) can now legally drive in the states.
When we developed this approach, I thought it would be an incremental advance that would not not have staying power.
Martin was more optimistic—and he was right.
Take a look at Martin's new tutorial!
honestly even delivering a bunch of frozen meals from a grocery store is way cheaper than doordashing a single meal. if that's what it takes to cut your restaurant delivery spending, it still saves you money
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“Lastly, the presence of early patient-led research proves something vital, which is that people become scientists of their own conditions when systems lag. That labor should be recognized, supported, and resourced.”
#LongCovid #MEcfs #PASC #PostCovid #PostCovid19 #chronicillness #PwME #CFS
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“The work has to continue, the messy, mundane, bureaucratic and deeply human work: documenting symptoms, pushing for screening and access, training clinicians in #PESE / #PEM and dysautonomia, funding longitudinal research, and insisting that care be co-designed with the people who will use it”
